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I, too, thought it was an insulin pump at first. Then, as I was clicking through to see if there was a source vid, I thought it seemed kind of strange for that. And thought about muscles. What a weird world we live in. I was pretty excited about an insulin pump like that, actually. Being type 1, and all...

In the media it is. But in real life there's enough people that don't give a fuck, that anyone plain or pretty looking can easily find a mate if they have the personality for it. If they just focus on people that care how they look in relation to media standards, then I think the problem is partially them.

Nearly one-third of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors.

An estimated 10-15% of people who suffer from anorexia or bulimia are male.

Men are less likely to seek treatment for eating disorders because of the perception that they are "women's diseases."

It's irrelevant whether men or women "have it worse" when both are affected, especially given that the perception that men don't have eating disorders may contribute to their hesitancy to seek treatment.

Okay, so in one genre the Seth Rogans get the girl. What about the Matthew Mcconaugheys, the Vin Diesles, the Brad Pitt's. Any one movie with these few teach that success comes from chiseled abs and a rock hard chest. It doesn't fucking matter whether you're a woman or man. The matter of the fact is that either one is at a disadvantage when he or she doesn't meet an ideal metered appearance.

Maybe for one, you shouldn't be basing your feeling off of what a bunch of actors faked. Because in the real world, where things actually happened, out of shape men are put down or looked over just as much as out of shape women.

With that in mind, these people shouldn't turn that into what it is. We have health sciences that show that a person who gets a healthy amount of exercise and eats properly usually looks a certain way. Why is it bad that we as humans find healthy attractive? Does it not make sense that evolutionary decisions would be based on whether or not our genes will be passed on in the best possible manner?

The belief that body dysmorphia is exclusively a female condition is part of the problem. You have "met men who are really upset that they aren't like Taylor Lautner," but they don't talk about it out loud because it is not culturally condoned.

I do have to say though Firefox's fucking sync shit is terrible. Only reason I'm still using Chrome is because I just sign into my google account and poof, synced/linked into any other google chrome app.

If they ever fix the Firefox Sync I'd switch in a heart beat. It's just so frustrating setting it up, adding 'accounts', etc.

Except not. This is the same science behind "ab energizers" that were big in the early 2000's. They were popular for like a year before everyone learned they don't work, caused various health problems, etc. They just managed to make it smaller.

So the contraction of muscles doesn't do anything? And require physical weight to produce a change? So how do kegels produce results? And can I slap this on my taint for better orgasims? But really I just need a good movie to watch. Any suggestions, random internet person?

It's like saying that your legs will get fit if you sit in a motorized bike and let the pedals move your legs, instead of the other way around.

Terrible analogy.

The thing doesn't move the muscle for it like you suggest, it's 'telling' the muscle to move using a electrical jolt, which it then does under it's own power.

Whether it's safe or not, is another debate.

I've had a quick(emphasis on quick) look around the net, and couldn't find something that said "No, this kind of exercise device doesn't work." A lot of complaints about false advertising about claiming it will give you a six pack (Which is a false claim by the ads, getting a six pack requires you to have low body fat), and things about whether or not it's safe.

I take it you've never used them before then. My parents bought them when they first came out. They were basically sticky pad electrodes like you see in the movies/tv. But instead of reading body functions they zapped you with electricity.

Think of it this way. Have you ever been really sick? Like the vomity sick? Where you can't control it. And your abs just go grrrrr and you go ughhuhhuhuhh. And when it's all done, your stomach muscles hurt from the forceful hemorrhaging they just went though?

That's what those things did to you. I believe most people just quit using them for the same reason you don't want to be sick again... minus the acidy taste and clean up.

except building and toning muscle is not about contracting it, it is about forming tiny tears in the muscle by pushing them to their limits, causing them to heal better than they were before the exersize, simply tensing a muscle does not make it grow

The muscles acting on the hand can be subdivided into two groups: the extrinsic and intrinsic muscle groups. The extrinsic muscle groups are the long flexors and extensors. They are called extrinsic because the muscle belly is located on the forearm.

The fingers have two long flexors, located on the underside of the forearm. They insert by tendons to the phalanges of the fingers. The deep flexor attaches to the distal phalanx, and the superficial flexor attaches to the middle phalanx. The flexors allow for the actual bending of the fingers. The thumb has one long flexor and a short flexor in the thenar muscle group. The human thumb also has other muscles in the thenar group (opponens and abductor brevis muscle), moving the thumb in opposition, making grasping possible.

Oh, are those shock-exercise stick-on pads from 10-15 years ago making a comeback? I remember there was one that exercised your face muscles and the go-to joke at the time was people saying they left it on all night and now they could lift 50 lbs with their eyebrows.